THE BIOINTERACTIVE DWELLING

(IM)PROBABLE DIALOGUES FOR AN AMAZONIAN PHENOMENOLOGY OF WATERS

Abstract

Between rivers that breathe slowly and forests that seem to guard the deep memory of the Earth, the Amazon reveals itself less as an object of analysis and more as a lived world. Within this sensitive horizon, this article proposes a deliberately daring theoretical gesture: to bring into resonance the ontology of dwelling developed by Martin Heidegger with the territorial and counter-colonial cosmologies articulated by Nego Bispo. Rather than seeking a conciliatory synthesis between distinct intellectual traditions, the study explores the epistemological friction that emerges from this unlikely encounter, suggesting that phenomenology can be reopened from the historical margins of colonial modernity. Grounded in the Amazonian-Marajoara context—particularly within the riverine territorialities—this work employs photographs and phenomenological descriptions of landscape as reflective devices for theorizing senses of life and place. From this movement emerges the notion of biointeractive dwelling, understood as a mode of existence grounded in reciprocity between humans, waters, forests, ancestries, and ecological temporalities. More than an analytical concept, biointeractive dwelling expresses an ontological sensitivity in which living means co-participating in the living dynamics of territory. By articulating ontology, cosmology, and territorial experience, the article outlines the contours of a counter-colonial phenomenology, capable of recognizing that many peoples have never ceased to dwell in relations of care with the Earth. Between waterscapes, riverine memories, and Afro-Pindoramic cosmologies, the Amazon thus emerges not merely as an empirical field of research, but as a genuine site of thought.